Quotes About Character

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Hard work spotlights the character of people some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Condition a man (or a woman) to value aggression above all other virtues, and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be anger. Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

the most crucial ingredient in a team that achieves and sustains historic greatness is the character of the player who leads it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him," he wrote. "Fail to honor others and they will fail to honor you.

It's the notion that the most crucial ingredient in a team that achieves and sustains historic greatness is the character of the player who leads it.

Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.

We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.

It's where a thing can't be beautiful or perfect without an imperfection. Say,

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.